The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-05-07
NO. i0
STATE NEWS.

/ EtEooAOAnA 'NGANNAANAlA - 49, fAttafaN
at Thibodaux on the 2lst inst.
The Shreveport Tunes says the
shrewd investor 10 Louisiana Is put
ting his money in timber lands.
The New Iberia National Bank has
commenced operations with MF, {. Z.
Renoudet as cashier. This institution
has paid up capital Of s50,0ee
The cane and corn crops Of 81.
Mary are wcll advanced and the stand
of both are good. The fruit pros
pects Of the parish are also aatteging,
Bossicr Banner Southern Louis
lana is enjoying q genuine boom.
Lake Charles appears TO be headqnas-
ters for that region and Is building up
very fast,
The st. Bernard Eagle is more than
ever convinced that the people are
united in support of the new meat
canning factory, II win give employ
ment TO many now idle and improve
the meat market.
/ Emily Landry, the bearded girl.
who has been on exhibition i'd New
Orleans at Robinson'a Dino Museum,
died Last week in Detroit. Her re-
mains will be forwarded to TerFe
bonne parish, La, her native home,
for inteTment.
Farmeyville Gazette The Shreye-
port Times has interviewed the bust
ness man Of that place relative to the
effect of the interstate commerce law
upon the commercial interests of that
city. The majority OF them have ex-
pressed the belief that the act will
prove detrimental TO Shreveport
Monroe Balletia It is an indis-
putable fact that Gov. MeEnery has
Iabored assiduously TO advance the
material interests Of the State, and
his course in this respect meets with
almost universal eommendation, Il is
the opinion Of many that he is the
best Governor Louisiana ever had,
Terrebonpe Times; We have rea-
son to be very thankful thia year, 40
far, the season has been very favora-
bic to the cultivator Of the soil. The
crops Of fruit are very promising, veg
etables abundant, cane, corn and rice
very promising, all that seems neees-
sary is for man to do his part, and
then we'll all be happy.
N. o. City Item; Minpeaotians
are writing to Rapides parish inquiFing
for chances TO locate. One writer aaj
atheEe are quite number Of peop
around here who arc getting disguste
with the cold winters and wish
move South" In Louisiana they %
not fail to prosper if they bring thrift
and industrious habits with them,
Abbeyille Meridioaal; Those
our farmers who failed TO get the
seed in before the drouth set
finished planting their cotton "
week. The seed planted previous
the dTouth ls sprouting and doiI
we'll The acreage planted this We
is slight greater than that Of las
yet we need more rain to secure
good stand.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Plaatei
The Louisiana Press Association y
hold ito ANIMAL session at Lake ChaEls
on June IA, next. The hospitable
people of that fouishing city will
} doubtless do all in their power to
{ make the stay Of the quill.dFiyers
pleasant one, We understand that
trip out on the Gulf isa part Of the
I programme Of entertainment prepared
J for the occasion.
St. Mary ReyieW; According to
Z the tabuIated abatement Of the Pea
K yune's sugar report, st. Mary eoptin.
pes TO be the banner parish. She
! shows a yield Of 27,42a,250 pounds,
7 Of which 1911 400 pounds were open
kettle, and 22,T5O,D5O pounds we're
I clarified sngar. Ofthe molasses 840,-
. 9s3 gallons were open kettle, and
! l,2s5,o80 were centrifngals. The
! ! average yield Of sugar per acre was
/ LAO hogsheads.
PIaquemines Observer Rice plant
ers are jUbilsnt over the fact that not
a musk rat has been seen in rice fields
/. this year. Their destruction by the
last October gale seems TO have been
complete. These pests annually de-
stroyed ohe-third Of the rice crop
planted in Pointe-a-la-Haehe and be-
low that point, as far down as Quarap-
I tine. Their disappearance, conse-
qpently il matter os much Importance
( and profit 10 the large class Of citizens
1 ii this parish engaged IN the enlture
! Of this cereal.
Homer Journal Tho RnsEon Cas-
igrapb mentions as an evidence Of the
t prosperity 81 Lincoln parish farmers
g the fact that the home merchants DO
d not now keep corn for sale, The Cal
is igraph adds that when the merchants
"a do not keep bacon for sale that lhl
% farmers will be still more pFosperonl
le The same is true Of Glsiborne, On
al merchants do not now as foTmeFl
Ee have 10 supply The farmeFa With COZ
90 and when the point is reached whel
ee- the farmers produce their oWp beee
ire al home, times viii be better and q
sse country more pFospereas
-he Washington argus nnFipg q
ps month of March passea There Wel
stH4 shipped grom ong Town ~ he@
fof laa6s ~ rail l938 assss aFe
ssA aging thirty aaaen pes eaas' Z sltl
sps ~ s79 e8e eggs, whleil NJ AeA ean
yss per dozen, ihe average Price 9oll
'l4 hfn6uut Ia lSe snug sHfii et ai ].
~ addition 80 ilia, lafge shiF8len'
"a, afe mkde % llo qeekl5 atealaess lse!
Ia ing ouf poll fQE the {reeeaHl y
ias IS aage 70 say .hat iha feR pfosasi
aF saipped from oNf teWa aaoaHt tq